Publisher's Synopsis
Books & Characters (French & English), by English writer, biographer, Bloomsbury group member, and literary critic Lytton Strachey, was originally published in 1922. The work is a collection of essays on French and English authors and poets, including Racine, Sir Thomas Browne, the Marquise du Deffand, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, Blake, Thomas Beddoes, Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Lady Hester Stanhope, and Thomas Creevey.
